Sheila’s parents had lived through the sounds of German jackboots on their city’s cobblestone pavement. When Czechoslovakia was “liberated” from German occupation after World War II by the Red Army, her grandfather started writing articles for an unauthorized literary

A life in a day’s time When the early hour makes him quiver, the mountain puts an arm around him. The sunlight is fierce on some virgin snow that climbs to the shiny blue sky. It’s so still that